What is the current state of HTML5 mobile app development?

Providing flexibility along with keeping the development costs low: new platforms want high-quality, small-sized apps for their users and HTML5 gives them the exact interactive solutions. This interactivity isn’t focused merely on graphics part but it also covers video, audio as the important elements. Here, HTML5 is just the quality answer for the need of creating the finest, interactive and animated content for nearly all types of software and application development requirements.

Almost all browsers now provide support to HTML5 and associated technologies like CSS3 and JavaScript. Together with the supports of these three, such mobile webs and hybrid mobile apps can be developed which use the browser engine of a device for rendering the information and showing it up in the app. Mobile developers are confident that all browsers and platforms like iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile will continue to support HTML5 in future.

Apart from adopting HTML5, more and more developers now prefer No-SQL databases like ZeroMQ, MongoDB, and CouchDB to simplify the difficulties of database migration. HTML5, as an open-source technology, decreases the risk of vendor lock-in.

Organizations are now also using tools to measure the mobile response times and the performance of particular webs. There is need of establishing the key performance indicators as a benchmark for the assurance of great user-experience and quick troubleshooting. But things do not look picture-perfect. The entire system would collapse because of slow network connectivity. Though, there are solutions. If an app is created with limited page elements, it loads faster.

So HTML5 is worth considering even after the fact that it’s still in implementation phase. But it is not easy to tap into the system capability of device with HTML5 technology. There is no easy way to access operating system features, GPS, audio and video merely with HTML5 applications. The solution is hybrid mobile application development. Forrester once solved the problem by recommending developers using Modernizr, HTMLtest.com and HTML5 boilerplate in the instance where different browsers support different features for cross-platform compatibility.

And also, older Microsoft Explorers do not effectively support HTML5 technology. This is why several tools and technologies used for the development are not fully compatible.

Last but not least, we would see no fade out to the demand of native app because HTML5 cannot be an ultimate choice to all sorts of mobile applications. HTML5 is good for those low-budget app projects which require cross-platform support.

Most organizations see using HTML5 as a high return on investment. They are hiring mobile or web application development firms to get their HTML5 based mobile app projects done. If your organization cannot allot separate budgets for separate platforms, HTML5 is a recommended technology for you.

The numbers tell the whole story: Gartner, the data research firm, forecasted that there was a 7 percent of growth in the sales on smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2016. The number of tablets would grow with more adoption whereas about a 4.3% of increase will be added to the adoption of mobile devices. On the flip side, the shipments of desktop computer, laptop and notebook saw a decline during the same phase of the time. The growing number of smartphones shows that people, regardless of their locations, are lessening the use of desktop or laptop PCs for most of their computing needs. It is now a global trend.

No doubt this ongoing trend is also giving acceleration to mobile app development, particularly HTML5 based mobile apps. Businesses from different industry segments are also discovering that HTML5 is now almost a web standard and an absolute choice for cross-platform and web application developments.

When combined with other technologies like JavaScript and CSS3, HTML5 can be applied to the development of interactive webs which also support animation similar to Flash. HTML5 provides sophisticated graphics capabilities and now, all browsers engines have extended support to these capabilities to be exploited by webs and apps.

With HTML5, there is no need of building a dedicated native app for each new platform. Because it passed on cross-platform compatibility, a single code-base can be implemented to multiple platforms, the cost gets reduced to a great extent and, apps require less development time to reach the market. And when combined with native technology, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript result into hybrid apps which, apart from carrying web attributes, can also support the device features supported only by pure native apps.

HTML5 apps do not also get interference to their functioning and performance even on low-end hardware. We can notice native apps to perform differently on different devices but this isn’t just a case with HTML5 applications.

Many data research firms have found that the acceptance of this web technology for website, mobile web and mobile web app developments has gone worldwide. The only reasons why developers and organizations prefer HTML5 over others are its simplicity in implementation, capabilities to serve cross-platform requirements and easy development along with minimized cost of development.

The Scopes of the HTML5 Technology: businesses from different industries keep receiving requirements to bring their offerings / products/ services on mobile through apps. No doubt the demand of mobile apps is on the great rise. In fact, we are in the middle of a mobile technology explosion and, it’s of course affecting us, our way of living, our business and the world we live in.

Businesses understand the advantages of being on mobile platform but what stops them to do that is the investment of costs required to make in the development of an app. Small companies cannot afford to make big investments particularly in native app development but here HTML5 is the savior for all them.

For all those businesses which are helpless in investing in separate apps for separate platforms, the best solution is HTML5. A perfectly designed cross-platform HTML5 app development strategy is in fact an intelligent idea for organizations which have not still gone mobile because of costs.

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Sofia is a digital marketing expert in Rapidsofttechnologies, a prominent mobile app development company which provides ios and android app development services across the global. She loves to write on latest mobile trends, mobile technologies, startups and enterprises

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